OFF - Owner Free Filesystem. An interesting idea where only XOR-diffs between files are stored in a distributed manner and are designed so that each block of numbers can be combined with others to create various original files - which, according to the authors, makes the individual blocks of numbers not copyrightable, as they belong to different originals at the same time.
Archive 31.7.2006 - 15.8.2006
A naive idea - not even that naive. Probably too obvious for politicians. Well, one thing is clear: our politicians hate our freedom far more than the attackers - because our politicians constantly attack our freedom. Again and again. At all levels.
Merlin XU870 3G HSDPA 7.2 ExpressCard - Direct UMTS in the MacBook Pro?
AMD talks about ATI - possible open-sourcing of the drivers?
Bill Biggart's Final Exposures - Images from the WTC attack by a photographer who was killed by debris on that day.
Idaho Observer: Aspartame - The World’s Best Ant Poison - Diet Cola? Perfect Ant Poison. At least the sweetener used - developed as ant poison, but as a sweetener it makes more money ...
An AOL Searcher No. 4417749 Is Identified - it's one thing to say that the search queries published by AOL can be traced back to names. Another thing is to actually do it - the NY Times can not only fake photos, but sometimes also be investigative ...
O'Reilly's list of the most popular programming languages - absurd, how a publisher, who has long been facing competition in its core area from others (e.g. apress and manning), still acts as if they could provide some definitions. And not just trying to boost their own sales and define the market by selecting the topics published.
Update accelerates Parallels Desktop for Mac OS X - hopefully the support for non-US keyboards will finally be worth something. That is currently the most severe drawback of Parallels.
ApplicationRepositories - Maemo Wiki - a list of all currently known application pools for integration into the installer on the Nokia Tablet.
Star Trek Inspirational Posters - brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
BS Exporter for Blender - export interactive VRML from Blender (static VRML is already supported by default)
David Byrne(yes, the one from Talking Heads) blogged. Among other things, against American Christianist madness.
The state is leaving, the economy is coming - Education is the most important asset of society. We are selling it off.
MacWeb3D - everything about virtual worlds on the Macintosh
Synthetic testosterone - in Landis' blood samples. Well, that's that then. It will certainly drag on for a long time, but the career is probably suspended for now.
Voigt in Yellow - class. First he wins a stage victory and now he at least has the yellow jersey for one day (by the way, taken over from Zabel!).
VRML Primer and Tutorial - free book about VRML97
How the railway is being dismantled - Silverware. Especially cheap.
QAvimator - extended animation software that also allows the integration of reference objects for better positioning.
Hackers Clone RFID Passports - oh, great, the blackhats have demonstrated how easy it is to clone a German passport with RFID (i.e. the RFID part of it). Result? A blank piece of paper with an RFID chip that looks like the original ID to the electronic reader.
New "Web'n'Walk" data options at T-Mobile - the bureaucratic nightmare (which still seems to be rampant at telecoms) would neigh if it could handle the application form and the 100-page instructions for filling it out ...
SLStats: Is Big Brother Watch-ing? - we all have nothing to hide, even in virtual worlds. It's strange somehow, how willingly people give out data, even if it's other people's data, or very personal data.
The scientist whom history forgot - Emilie du Châtelet.
Official pre-formulated text on the right of withdrawal is invalid - yet another example of our federal justice bungling ...
Girllovers - Behind the Mirrors - click and read. I mean it!
Kinderschutzbund: "Insurance companies must pay for anesthetics" - please what? Professional anesthesia should be removed from the service catalog? Have they completely lost their minds in Berlin?
France: iTunes law violates human rights - isn't it cute how the human right to property protection is misused to give companies (what do they have to do with human rights?) a big lever against individuals (who actually have the human rights) in their hands?
Apple - Support - Download TechTool Deluxe - quite useful for Apple Care users: the latest TechTool version, which, for a change, shouldn't shred the disk structure ...
Cruel.Com: Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh? - how good that I don't particularly like Chinese food ...
Humorous Poems by Joachim Ringelnatz - German and English translations.
Outrage following French landmark ruling on copyright - shocking, when you look at what the French have been given in their nest ...
Police officers criticize statements by the federal data protection officer on mass genetic tests - yes yes, the security of our citizens. Important. Especially also the efficiency. Where would we end up if every Tom, Dick, and Harry data protection officer would criticize there. Strange only, that with all this efficiency and security, the mass genetic tests actually don't find any perpetrators ...
Nonsense poetry by Christian Morgenstern - German and English translations.
SCO is Distributing ELF Under the GPL Still. Yes. Now. Today. - strange. One would think that SCO would have already taken down all downloads that allegedly violate their rights. Wrong guess ...
Apple replaces defective MacBook Pro batteries - I need to check what I have.
Atomic Rocket: Space War: Weapons - Considerations of various SciFi weapons (some of which are real weapons) and their effects in space.
Banken: Vollstrecker aus Texas - Real estate locusts. Surely, many will now feel the need to explain to me why it's not that bad after all ...
Free Movies Fallen out of Copyright (Public Domain) - free movies. There are a few gems among them.
How to Bypass Most Firewall Restrictions and Access the Internet Privately - system administrators and firewall operators should take a look at this.
How To Criticizing Computer Scientists - Avoiding Ineffective Deprecation And Making Insults More Pointed
Introducing Django 0.95 - new Django release out. Magic removed.
Living with Errors - the Key to Scaleout - good article about system scalability.
New in JavaScript 1.7 - exciting to see what's being added to JavaScript. Given the slow pace of IE's development, we can expect to use these features in 2010 - or earlier, if Microsoft's browser embarrassment is simply pulled from the market ...